What is Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code, in essence, is an open source, cross-platform text editor. It is based on the Electron framework, formerly known as Atom Shell, which is a framework that enables you to write cross-platform desktop applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you've ever used the Atom text editor by GitHub, you'll see a strong resemblance between that and Visual Studio Code.

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Atom is a hackable/customizable text editor from GitHub. It is also open source and can be downloaded from https://atom.io/.

Visual Studio Code can be used by developers to build web applications in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and also supports TypeScript and ASP.NET Core. It is folder-based rather than project-based, which means you simply need to open a folder containing your project files instead of opening a project file such as .csproj.

It features IntelliSense (which will be familiar to anyone that has used Visual Studio in the past) and also supports debugging and Git Source...